The Barn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBEB C FG HIJK LJMJ NGOG| They should never have built a barn there at all | A |
| Drip drip drip under that elm tree | B |
| Though when it was young Now it is old | C |
| But good not like the barn and me | B |
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| To morrow they cut it down They will leave | D |
| The barn as I shall be left maybe | B |
| What holds it up 'Twould not pay to pull down | E |
| Well this place has no other antiquity | B |
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| No abbey or castle looks so old | C |
| As this that Job Knight built in ' | - |
| Built to keep corn for rats and men | F |
| Now there's fowls in the roof pigs on the floor | G |
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| What thatch survives is dung for the grass | H |
| The best grass on the farm A pity the roof | I |
| Will not bear a mower to mow it But | J |
| Only fowls have foothold enough | K |
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| Starlings used to sit there with bubbling throats | L |
| Making a spiky beard as they chattered | J |
| And whistled and kissed with heads in air | M |
| Till they thought of something else that mattered | J |
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| But now they cannot find a place | N |
| Among all those holes for a nest any more | G |
| It's the turn of lesser things I suppose | O |
| Once I fancied 'twas starlings they built it for | G |
Edward Thomas
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